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Users added to AD security group are not made members of SharePoint online group
My company employs Active Directory security groups to administer permissions in SharePoint online. For example we have a SharePoint group that has contribute permissions to one of our sites. We make...
I know this is an old post but we have done something similar. We use the Azure AD groups to assign permissions, However we do not put them in the SharePoint groups. We actually remove all SharePoint groups when we create a new site (except Teams related ones) and just use the Azure AD groups. We just add peoples accounts into the Azure AD groups and the permissions are given within 4 hours. The users just need to sign out of Browser for permission changes to be recognized. DO NOT remove SharePoint groups from Teams related SP sites or you will have to recreate the entire Team.